Jack Bohrer

Ex-TV news producer; Author of THE REVOLUTION OF ROBERT KENNEDY (2017, @BloomsburyPub)

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

57 years ago tonight, Robert Kennedy went home after burying his brother and told people that the country would soon forget about the Kennedys... I wrote a book about what happened next... https://t.co/DNfIamVZGo

[Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki]

A Saturday daily double: I’ll be live at Laurel Park with the NBC team for our coverage of the 152nd Preakness from 4-7pm.

After I cash my tickets (😆)and if traffic cooperates, I’ll be back at 9pm from DC for a just-the-results livestream of the Louisiana GOP Senate primary.

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

RIP Jules Witcover...

[Sasha Issenberg @sissenberg]

Now with 25% more days!

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

I could’ve written thousands more words about Fran DeWine.

But here’s one extra bit about Ohio’s First Lady, a mother of eight.

When she and then-Sen DeWine first went to Haiti on a Codel, she wanted to see an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince. So the embassy took her to a lovely, sorta uptown facility in a Victorian home.

She took it in and then said: ok, now take me to a more typical one.

So that’s what happened. And when Fran DeWine heard they needed an expensive formula for the newborns, she gave all the cash she had on her.

That started the DeWines involvement in Haiti, which for nearly 30 years has included helping to fund a school in the poorest section of Port-au-Prince.

[Sasha Issenberg @sissenberg]

Some weekend reading:

A wild yarn about a churchgoing suffragist and reformed murderer who teamed up to take down the biggest voter-fraud conspiracy in American history (until now) and helped set a template for clean elections that prevails today https://t.co/TKkZK27Rea

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

Get J.D. Vance on a plane with Thomas Dodd, stat... https://t.co/EKouCAxrl2

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

Don Murray played a closeted U.S. Senator in 1962's ADVISE & CONSENT, which he said was "a part nobody else wanted." A guy who lived far ahead of his time... https://t.co/9T0TRGTTl5

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

RIP, Joe Lelyveld.

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Joseph Lelyveld advised Robert Kennedy ahead of his 1966 trip to South Africa, where he delivered his "Ripple of Hope" speech, in this undated memo (Lelyveld told me he wrote it after the Apartheid government kicked him and his family out)...

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

“Merely shaking hands with a black man in South Africa is a fantastic gesture.”

[Adam Liptak @adamliptak]

R. I.P. Joe Lelyveld, a towering giant of American journalism whose ascent in the face of a famously awkward mien was, as The New Yorker put it, “a triumph of merit.” https://t.co/tOx0K0NltU

[New York Mammoths @NYMammoths]

Daily News, August 16, 1969. Happy Traffic Uptight At Hippiefest to all who celebrate.

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An essay I wrote in 2022 for @librarycongress about Robert Kennedy's speech following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. #NatRecRegistry https://t.co/mkc7hZfpHO

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

@wildstein Interesting, as I think this is when both RFK Jr. and Lem had serious addiction problems...

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@bendmayer Wish this was 2017, I would have Hollis make this my topline sound...

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

A necessary article for anyone desensitized to gun violence... https://t.co/7thlZZZt98

[Randi Marshall @randimarshall]

Need consistent Holocaust education State data shows wide range in how - and much - LI districts teach Nazi persecution. https://t.co/NQrWBqIrAF

[Jack Bohrer @JRBoh]

Pretty sure this is @maureendowd's dad... (Washington Post, January 23, 1953)

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

From today's hearing: Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews recalls suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in summer of 2021 during the evacuation of Afghanistan. Vargas-Andrews, who is now 25, lost an arm and a leg in the blast that killed 13 other service members:
https://t.co/m6NgPiItmo

[John Koblin @koblin]

"I just said, I think I'm better than the work I'm being offered." How Craig Mazin went from being a comedy screenwriter to a creator of a pair of HBO hits, including THE LAST OF US: https://t.co/Nouk3KqDn1